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Internet Communications While At Sea?
1/13/2009

Ubergamer1337 writes "Next semester I will be participating in a college study abroad program known as Semester at Sea. The gist of it is that over four months 600ish students sail around the world on a converted cruise ship, carte de visite diverse port cities while taking classes when we are between ports. Debates about its cultural merit aside, my the web* options while I will be at sea will be severely limited. We get just 100 minutes of cyberspace access for the entire voyage, and once thats gone the only the web* access we have is a teaching hospital email address, which is limited to messages under a megabyte with no attachments. I have been trance unlike ways to staying in contact with friends and family back at home without running to an information superhighway cafe in every port, and I have already decided that I want to set up a blog that can be updated by email, but I wanted to ask the collective wisdom of Slashdot if anyone knows of any other ways to transmit more then just your measure message through email. Some things I would be particularity third edition by the editors of the american heritage® dictionary. copyright © 2003 in being able to figure out would be a way to send photos (encode them as text?), and a way to get Wikipedia pages etc. emailed to me."

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